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Team called early morning about a walker reported overdue from a long trip round the ridges of Yewbarrow, Red Pike, Scoat Fell, Haycock and Seatallen. With so much ground to cover our colleagues from Cockermouth Mountain Rescue Team and Duddon and Furness Mountain Rescue Team also joined the search along with the Lake District Mountain …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.wmrt.org.uk/incidents/greendale-wasdale-thu-14th-jun-2018/
We were called by Police about 2 walkers reported overdue from a walk on Scafell Pike. Using the ‘find my iPhone’ function it was determined they were likely to be somewhere near the Corridor Route. Search teams were deployed from Wasdale & Keswick Teams along with a Coastguard Helicopter from Prestwick. The missing walkers were …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.wmrt.org.uk/incidents/skew-gill-great-end-sat-3rd-feb-2018/
The team spent 3 days searching for a missing walker on Scafell Pike. The walker was initially reported overdue from a walk on Scafell Pike on Sunday 14th January at 19:00. Team members who had already been to an injured walker near the summit searched in foul conditions but without success. Assistance was requested from …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.wmrt.org.uk/incidents/upper-eskdale-sun-14th-jan-2018/
We were called by our colleagues in Langdale Team to help look for a missing walker last seen ascending Bowfell via The Band. The walker was found by a mountain leader and group on a night navigation exercise near Long Crag in Upper Eskdale. The walker was passed to us near Lingcove Bridge and after …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.wmrt.org.uk/incidents/upper-eskdale-sat-21st-oct-2017/
We were called by Police about a group of walkers who were reported as wet through and poorly equipped for the conditions, one of whom was also missing. The group were found by a mountain leader at the Esk Hause shelter. As this is in Keswick Team’s patch the incident was passed to them but …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.wmrt.org.uk/incidents/esk-hause-sat-21st-oct-2017/
The team was called in the early hours of Sunday for a report of a walker overdue from a trip up Scafell Pike. A search started at first light and when the walker was not found in the first few hours the effort was ramped up with search groups from Duddon and Furness, Cockermouth, Keswick, …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.wmrt.org.uk/incidents/straight-gill-lingmell-sun-15th-oct-2017/
Team called late last night about a walker reported overdue from a trip up Scafell Pike. On investigating further it became likely the missing walker had joined forces with another and both were potentially lost on the mountain. With relatively little information to go on regarding their location we delayed a search until first light …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.wmrt.org.uk/incidents/eskdale-tue-28th-mar-2017/
We were called by Police about 2 walkers who had become separated whilst ascending Scafell Pike and one had failed to turn up back at their car. In view of the freezing temperatures that night and poor forecast for the next morning it was decided to mount a search that night. As the point last …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.wmrt.org.uk/incidents/scafell-pike-thu-31st-mar-2016-2/
The team was called out to assist Duddon and Furness MRT with a search for a man missing from the Waberthwaite area. Five mountain rescue teams assisted by search dogs searched overnight and through the following day. Just before dark the man was spotted by a member of the public on Raven Crag above the …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.wmrt.org.uk/incidents/waberthwaite-mon-7th-sep-2015/
We were asked to support Cockermouth Team on a missing person search. As we arrived at the RV the missing person was found and we stood down.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.wmrt.org.uk/incidents/cogra-moss-tue-23rd-jun-2015/
The team has got together with Coniston Corporate to provide a range of high quality clothing and other items for supporters to purchase with profits received by the rescue team.